Validation of the effectiveness of an optimized EPMcreate as an aid for creative requirements elicitation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6182 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 91-105

  Sakhnini, Victoria ^a   Berry, Daniel M ^a   Mich, Luisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; CREATIVITY ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUES; HIGH SCHOOL; REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77955451096     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14192-8_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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